The last thing I wanted this year is another colt. Still, my appreciation for this latest one is growing at each candid shot Terry Doyle sends me through DeWayne Brown, who owns the dam. Look at that neck, that gaskin and these hocks, at such a young age. Bashir is really a good sire. I fancy the lines to *Mirage, *Euphrates, *Shahwan and *Al-Mashoor way in the back of the pedigree, and more closely, the cross to *Faleh and of course the Doyle blood. I have the highest respect for the influence of *Faleh and his full brother *Farazdac in any pedigree. Just a drop of that blood makes a huge difference (likewise with their maternal uncle *Aswan).
I finally managed to get a better photo of Assad Princess Surrayah. Please excuse the candid photo. She’s putting weight on nicely. Assad Princess Surrayah She will be put out to pasture with Gülilah Sawwan very soon.
I like this little chap. He speaks well for his sire as a breeding stallion. The dam is of course excellent.
It’s a colt — the third in a row from that Ma’naqi line. This morning Pippa went into labor and quickly delivered a healthy chestnut colt at Terry and Rosemary Doyle’s in Oregon. He is by Bashir Al-Dirri, Jenny Krieg’s excellent horse (below). His name is Sharif Al Arab. Sharif means “distinguished, eminent, illustrious, noble, highborn, high-bred”, and he is all of that by birth. Other than his tail male to Mesaoud, his Ma’naqi tail female to *Haidee and his high percentage of old Blunt blood, he is the last horse — together with his sire — to carry the bloodlines of early Arabian imports *Euphrates and *Al-Mashoor in Al Khamsa, and one of the last ones to carry lines to desert-breds *Leopard, *Mirage, and *Houran. These are quintessentially American lines of Arabian horses.
Wadha’s foal by Monologue is due this week, and Pippa’s foal by Bashir (“the Dude”) the next. I am hoping for a bay foal in the first case, regardless of gender, and for a filly (chestnut, because no other option) in the second. Both should be nice foals, if delivery goes all. In other news, Belle is in foal to Jamr again.